“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable”

“You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine.”

“Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment. ”

“What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there ...”

“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the...”

“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper edge of his window frame. A pair of very soft, clean glistening black shoes a...”

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express my...”